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 Spice
Resto-Lounge is THE place to be in Hollywood, Florida if you are looking for
exciting nightlife, beautiful people and excellent entertainment and food.
Service at Spice goes beyond friendly--the servers, bartenders, waiters and
waitresses practically dance through the room, and the owners, Arnie Batista
and Frank Hernandez, are having more fun than any restaurateurs in South
Florida. The entire atmosphere is a combination of a great South
Florida Latin party with fine dining and beautiful women.
Live Latin music plays every night and the bartenders and
wait staff motivate crowds to get on their feet by dancing on top of the
bar.
With live music every night and FREE salsa classes on Mondays
at 7 P.M., even the most rhythmically-challenged will have a great
time at Spice Resto-Lounge. With the sultry sounds of Reggae, Latin,
and Caribbean music, Spice comes alive with a show like no other. Featuring
a staff of professional dancers, awesome sound systems and tropical flavors
of South Florida, Spice Resto-Lounge is where you want be to have fun in
South Florida.
NOTE: Valet services are available.
What is Salsa Dancing?
Salsa is a style of music, a style of dance and of course
yummy sauce with nacho chips!
Musically, Salsa's rhythmical roots come from Africa via
Cuba. These rhythms fused with American jazz to form an unmistakable sound
that in it's heyday represented the Puerto Rican ghetto experience in New
York. The History of Salsa Dancing take us back to Cuba. Cuba was the root
of diverse styles like son and guajira, and the African rhythms of Rhumba.
Salsa is probably the term most often heard in connection with Latin music,
and paradoxically it is one that came into use in New York. Arguments rage
about its origins and some musicians still resent its catch-all vagueness.
Salsa itself just means 'sauce', and the phrase "echale salsita" - put sauce
on it, i.e. heat it up - has been around since at least 1928, when Cuban
veteran Ignacio Pineiro used it as a song title. In any case, the music
called Salsa is the blend of essentially Cuban and Puerto Rican dance music
which emerged in 1960s from immigrants in New York. Salsa could be described
as a mixture of brassy arrangements, repeating choruses and jazzy solos.
But the sound didn't stop there - it made it's way back to Cuba and Puerto
Rico, and also has a significant and accomplished base of musicians in
various parts of Central and South America.
As a dance, Salsa's sexy style, combined with a strong
cultural backing and a natural competition among dancers to create the
coolest moves, have made it the most popular partner dance in the world.
Bachata
Bachata is a popular guitar music from the Dominican
Republic. Now overwhelmingly successful among Latinos in the United States,
bachata took shape over a period of about forty years in the bars and
brothels of Santo Domingo, not gaining acceptance in its native land until
about ten years ago. Young groups like Aventura have a similar relationship
to original bachata as rock and rollers do to the blues, which has
languished in the shadow of its more commercially viable descendant.
The music that today is called bachata emerged from and
belongs to a long-standing Pan-Latin American tradition of guitar music,
música de guitarra, which was typically played by trios or quartets
comprised of one or two guitars (or other related stringed instrument such
as the smaller requito), with percussion provided by maracas and/or other
instruments such as claves (hardwood sticks used for percussion), bongo
drums, or a gourd güiro scraper. Sometimes a large thumb bass called marimba
or marimbula was included as well. When bachata emerged in the early 1960s,
it was part of an important subcategory of guitar music, romantic guitar
music -as distinguished from guitar music intended primarily for dancing
such as the Cuban son or guaracha- although in later decades, as musicians
began speeding up the rhythm and dancers developed a new dance step, bachata
began to be considered dance music as well. The most popular and widespread
genre of romantic guitar music in this century, and the most influential for
the development of bachata, was the Cuban bolero (not to be confused with
the unrelated Spanish bolero). Bachata musicians, however, also drew upon
other genres of música de guitarra that accomplished guitarists would be
familiar with, including Mexican rancheros and corridos, Cuban son, guaracha
and guajira, Puerto Rican plena and jibaro music, and the
Colombian-Ecuadorian vals campesino and pasillo- as well as the Dominican
meringue, which was originally guitar-based.
Before the development of a Dominican recording industry and
the spread of the mass media, guitar-based trios and quartets were almost
indispensable for a variety of informal recreational events such as Sunday
afternoon parties known as pasadías and spontaneous gatherings that took
place in back yards, living rooms, or in the street that were known as
bachatas. Dictionaries of Latin American Spanish define the term bachata as
juerga, jolgorio, or parranda, all of which denote fun, merriment, a good
time, or a spree, but in the Dominican Republic, in addition to the
emotional quality of fun and enjoyment suggested by the dictionary
definition, it referred specifically to get-togethers that included music,
drink, and food.
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